BOSTON — U.S. Coast Guard Station New Haven located two unresponsive people from an overdue vessel found near the west break wall in New Haven Harbor, Connecticut, Thursday evening.
The two people were recovered by a Connecticut State Police dive team and taken to West Shore Fire District’s fire house in West Haven, Connecticut. The two people were later pronounced deceased by the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The vessel was found capsized on the break wall in New Haven in the afternoon on July 10.
The vessel was deemed overdue when a concerned individual called the Sector Long Island Sound Command Center in the morning on July 10. It was reported that two people were potentially missing on a boat trip between Stratford and Norwalk the previous evening.
The missing people were found to be in a New Haven restaurant’s reservation list the evening of July 9. An adjacent marina’s security footage showed the people aboard the vessel.
A cell phone belonging to one of the missing people pinged a cell tower near the New Haven Harbor west break wall at 9:40 p.m., July 9.
An HC-144 fixed-wing aircraft from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod supported search efforts and flew numerous search patterns over the area.
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Environmental Conservation Police, Connecticut State Police, West Haven Police Department, West Haven Fire Department, West Shore Fire District, Branford Police Department and Stratford Police Department all assisted in the search.
CT DEEP Environmental Conservation Police is conducting a formal investigation into the cause of the incident.
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